EECS
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EECS, pronounced "eeks" or sometimes "eeh eeh cee ess", is an abbreviation for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. It is a designation used at some universities including MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Northwestern University, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
One reason behind linking the two areas of study is to provide students with a broad overview of both software and hardware.
Not every university uses the EECS designation. Stanford and the University of Washington, for example, have separate EE and CS departments/majors. Other schools, such as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Tech, Purdue University, Carnegie-Mellon University and Cornell University use the similar ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) designation.